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CHARLES M. ORANDALL, OF MONTROSE, PA., ASSIGNOR TO FRED W. @RANDALL AND BENJAMIN L. BALDWIN, BOTH OF SAME PLACE.

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SPECIFICATION' formingfpa'rt of Letters -Patent No. 294,589, dated March 4, 1884.

' Application filed April 27,1883. (No model.)

To @ZZ whom, it may concern:

Be it known that I, CHARLES M'. CRANDALL, of Montrose, Susquehanna county, State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Toy Building-Blocks; and IL do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the same, .reference being had to the accompanying` sheet of drawings, forming part of this specification.

This invention is in the nature of an improvement in toys 5 and the invention consists in a series of irregularly-divided toy-blocks, combined withcylindrical towers iitted thereto, in the manner and for the purpose hereinafter particularly shown and described.

In the accompanying sheet of drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of my toy. Fig. 2 is a detail plan view of single block. Fig. 3 is acrosssection of crenelated block, taken in line a: m, Fig. l'. Eig. et is a section of block, tower, and side piece.

Similarletters ofreference indicatelike parts in the several figures.

This invention is designed to produce an ,amusing and instructive toy for children, and

it particularly relates to that class of toys that consist of blocks or sections with irregularshaped edges, which, in the nature of a puzzle, affords amusement to the user.

In the construction of my toy I make a series of blocks, A, of 'different sizes and the edges a of irregular or scroll shape, so that only blocks with corresponding irregular-shaped4 edges will iit together to form a' given design. The surface of these blocks may be covered with any suitable lithographed or printed picture-as, for instance, the face or curtain of a fort or castle with embrasures, guns, and gate. The blocks, when tted together in a vertical position, may have a cornice-strip, B, placed on their upper edges, and on this strip may be iitted, in any desired manner, blocks C, arranged to forni a crenelated top, adding to the general design of the fortor castle. At each end of -the series of' blocks in this way built up are placed and iitted cylindrical towers D vand These towers may be likewise oi'namented with lithographic designs representing gates, windows, loop-holes, and embrasures, and to these towers, extending back from the same, sides E and G are secured, which form the sides of the structure built up with the blocks. To add to the generaleffect of the structure it\is designed to build, the fort or vcastle is placed or built `on the box H, which contains the blocks when not in use. This box is also ornamented with lithographie or printed pictures representing the ditch or moat of the fort spanned by a draw-bridge; or any other suitable design maybe placed on the box in keeping or in harmony with the general effect produced by the blocks. To add to the interest and amusement of the toy whenV the edifice shall have been completed, a toy-cannon, J, is combined with the blocks, so that by projecting from the cannon a rubber ball a seeming attack upon the fortniay be made, and when the ball projected from the cannon impinges against the face or curtain of the fort or castle, which, as before stated, is built up from the blocks A of irregular-shaped edges, the impact of the ball against the blocks when in position willV in some instances bend inward some of the blocks, and in others force one or more of the blocks entirely out of its position., leaving the opening thus formed with jagged-edges not vunlike a breach formed in a stone wall, which Vthe blocks represent. 'blocks is due to the peculiarly-irregular char- This featureof the acter'of the edges ofthe blocks, which holds the several blocks together with sufficient firinness or tenacity to allow one or more of their number to be bent or forced out without necessarily disturbing the surrounding blocks or demolishing the entire structure, so that a very good representation of a stone fort is had, and the effect of a cannonade against such a wall is well illustrated. t Y

The blocks A being, as before stated, of different sizes, necessitating blocks of corresponding edges to fit into each other, a pleasing puzzle is produced, which to some extent will tax thev ingenuity of the user of the blocks when endeavoring to fit the several blocks together to compose the general design.

- Instead of forming the blocks A with scrolled edges, they may, as is obvious, be provided with dowel-pins and holes as a means of keeping the blocks in position; but the simplest form and best effect is produced bythe form of edge described.

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Having now described my invention, what I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters l and E, and a foundation formed from the box Patent, isa H, ornamented with a design in harmony with 1o l. A toy composed of aseries of blocks with l said blocks, as and for the purpose described. scroll-cut edges, and combined with eylindrii CHARLES M. CRANDALL. 5 cal tower-blocks D and E and side blocks, F l Yitnessesz and G, as and for the purpose described. g A. I-I. SMITH,

2. In a toy, the combination of :L series o'f| HENRY C. TYLER, blocks with scroll-cut edges, tower-blocks D l JNO. N. BRUNS. 

